Monday, March 5, 2012

Magazine Reed Box

I had seen this magazine reed box at Craftzine long back and wanted to try it sometime. I decided to turn a sturdy shoe box into a reed box. Here are the results..

It hasn't turned out to be as great that as shown in Craftzine but I learnt couple of valuable lessons.1. I thought making a magazine reed is very simple, but I realized it is not so. As says in the instructions, placing the skewer at 45 degree is IMPORTANT.

2. I just read the instructions twice probably, overlooked many things.So after making few reeds, I glued them to one side of the box. After gluing, it was the time to cut the reeds to the length, exactly that of the box. Here I failed miserably. The reeds weren't getting cut evenly by the scissor. Later I read the instructions carefully, there is one sentence which says 'you can also cut the reeds to size before you glue them in place'. Then it was simple.Now I am more confident for my next magazine reed project.

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